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by nestorD 1y ago
As a French speaker who has done quite a bit of paid translating between French and English (so an uneducated translator rather than an amateur one I guess...), I have found that a lot of translation (in non-fiction, but also sometimes in f
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by nestorD 2y ago
It is a direct ancestor but I find that what most people picture when they hear Old English (and have no prior knowledge of it) is something closer to Middle English, which is somewhat redeable by modern English speakers, rather than someth
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by nestorD 2y ago
I was also surprised to find out (roughly a year ago) that Claude is good at Old English (which, despite its misleading name, looks nothing like English and is more of a Germanic language) whereas ChatGPT would output pure hallucinations.
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by nestorD 2y ago
I believe so! Since it is good at consistency and can be feed reference images, you can generate character references and deed those, along with the previous panels, to the model working one panel at a time.
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by nestorD 2y ago
Short answer: the model is good at consistency. You can use it to generate a set a style reference images, then use those as reference for all your subsequent generations. Generating in the same chat might also help it have further consiste
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by nestorD 2y ago
Yes.
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by nestorD 2y ago
France is not big on billionaires pet project... Also, a lot of the hard work is done by volunteers!
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by nestorD 2y ago
Musk has been using his money to influence politics (including in the US, accross the board). Buying a Tesla is giving him money and thus supporting that behavior. It seems obvious to me (a European living in the US) that, if you disagree
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by nestorD 2y ago
I am not talking about exposure to the lay public, which is a different problem, but tricks sold on the inside. A magician with low ethics can take a pre-existing idea or presentation, tweak it or change the method, and sell it as their own
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by nestorD 2y ago
Intriguing! But, being familiar with a domain that work of a mix of copyright and norm based intellectual property (magic). It is a mess in that people who do not care will abuse the system with little retribution, while people who care oft
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by nestorD 2y ago
Yes! And no! You will indeed need higher precision if you need a very large number of digits (more than what double precision gives you). However, even with high precision, the algorithms you use to compute your moments matter: you might no
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by nestorD 2y ago
1. Parallelization: Yes, they do parallelize! Conceptually, it is fairly easy to use accurate algorithms locally, then reduce the local accumulators. A side effect of doing this is cutting (or reducing) the noise in the output introduced by
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by nestorD 2y ago
Yes! I suspect that it boils down to 32 bits not being that much (you can enumerate them to test a function), while 64 bits is a lot . By that point, if you are having problems, then you are likely hitting a wall that will not be crossed
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by nestorD 2y ago
I have done my PhD on measuring floating-point error in large numerical simulations. In my experience, most of the time, if 64-bit floating points are not enough, then trying to increase precision further is unlikely to help much (there ar
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by nestorD 2y ago
In practice, Posits grabs very few additional bits and those are mostly felt in low bits (16 and less) regimes. That's a big reason it is mostly seeing adoption in memory constraint regimes. A great thing in the Posit proposal is that
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by nestorD 2y ago
My first instinct was to not see why one would want to consume such a podcast, a simile instead of either the original or an (AI?) summary of the original. Then I remembered a partially disabled friend who regularly asks for audio books, b
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by nestorD 2y ago
The full article is here: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.... Note that the editor's presentation linked in HN only shows the belief plot (showing that psi researchers tend to
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by nestorD 2y ago
Rayon is known to have a higher overhead for the simple, and arguably most common case in numerical codes, static block size scheduling. Things get better, and you start to benefit from rayon, as work gets less balanced.
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by nestorD 2y ago
Not the OP but I have done similar things. Claude has a workspace option that let's you preset a set of documents (here the documentation of the library used) and a system prompt to be included when starting a new chat in the given w
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by nestorD 2y ago
Note that there is quite a bit of thinking and available implementations of GC implementations available in Rust: https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe...
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by nestorD 2y ago
The "generalization to animals" part seems like it opens a lot of interesting avenues!
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by nestorD 2y ago
I strongly disagree. Her essays (?!) and short story might be a good place to demonstrate the breath and width of her style. The one exeption to this, for my taste, might be Earthsea, parts of it definitely fell short of its reputation as f
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by nestorD 2y ago
Most LLMs do well at Middle English (it is not that difficult of a task). Old English is significantly harder but I have found Claude Opus to give good results.
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by nestorD 2y ago
Here is my own list of recommendation (written down to give interns): https://nestordemeure.github.io/writing/guides/presentation/
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by nestorD 2y ago
You might also like the Lewis Chessmen 3D scans: https://sketchfab.com/britishmuseum/collections/lewis-chessm...
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by nestorD 2y ago
A `dry run` mode producing a symbolic link based reorganized copy of the folder would be nice.
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by nestorD 2y ago
The approach described above is what is commonly referred to as RAG[0]. I am not aware of someone having used it on Wikipedia but, from experience and while it helps, it does not eliminate all hallucinations. [0]: https://en.wiki
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by nestorD 2y ago
It is already done by some platforms (for example ChatGPT generates a prompt based on your query when generating images). The downside is that you might lose information (the improved prompt might not be an exact semantic match with the ori
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by nestorD 2y ago
I can confirm from experience that all of the things described above can be done by a normal person with visualization (it is technically auto-hypnosis but the term makes it sound more complicated than it is). It is easier to get started wi
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by nestorD 2y ago
The press statement has consistent image generation and other image manipulation (depicting the same character in different poses, taking a photo and generating a caricature of the person, etc) that does not seem deployed to the chat interf

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